Carpenter used a thermal camera to show internal temperatures a volunteer experienced during a hot flash.

Screen capture from Janet S. Carpenter’s video

In the video, Carpenter said, “We can’t see, necessarily, what’s happening in a woman’s body, and so we assume that it [a hot flash] doesn’t really exist. The myth we’re trying to dispel is that hot flashes aren’t real. We can make that visible for people to actually see what women are experiencing, that you can see the heat of the hot flash.”

The exhibit’s concept graphics traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia; San Diego; and Indianapolis in 2018. They are scheduled to travel during spring 2019 to The Art Gallery at Indiana University Northwest in Gary and South Dakota State University in Sioux Falls.